User talk:Robert Bowdidge

Greetings!

Thanks for the note. I followed a link from one of your tweets, saw a syntax error, and logged in to correct it. Then I got carried away.

The formatting is easy for me because:

1. I have experience as a copy editor
2. I've racked up 68,000 edits on Wikipedia, which uses the same wiki software (MediaWiki)

If you'll be getting more editors -- and people from various Santa Clara County historical societies seem like a good bet -- you might want to think about setting a "backstage" area for discussions, suggestions, sources, bibliographies, problem-solving, etc. On Wikipedia, it's a separate namespace (with the prefix "Wikipedia:", as in [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]] (see here for the actual link).

On this wiki, the namespace is [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:xxx]], but if that's too long you can easily create shortcuts (called "redirects" in Wiki parlance).

I'll create one as a demonstration, which, of course, you can easily delete if you don't want it or Move to a better title. I'll try Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources.

--Calton (talk) 05:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Example of redirect

Here's a shortcut and the syntax. I (more or less randomly) chose "PHSC:" as the short version of the prefix (on Wikipedia, it's "WP"), just to demonstrate.

PHSC:Sources

#REDIRECT [[Packing Houses of Santa Clara County:Sources:Sources]]

--Calton (talk) 05:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)